NIH panel urges research on treating early prostate cancerUSA Today

December 8, 2011

The treatment may be worse than the disease itself in a growing percentage of men diagnosed with prostate cancer, so there is an “urgent need” for more research into the role of delaying treatment or avoiding it altogether, a panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health concluded Wednesday.
Next to skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in U.S. men.